This evening I read the executive summary of the Competition Authority's report on the professions. I endeavoured to print it but, in the joys of monopoly service providers, my printer would not work and apparently it will take another week to get it fixed. I could not print it, but I did read it. I was intrigued by the different parts of it. I am particularly intrigued by the fact that the authority identified the problem of the quantitative restriction in entry to a number of the professions – particularly medicine, dentistry and veterinary science. There is a degree to which this is also true in the case of the architectural profession. There is no simple solution to that particular problem.